authorized Admin Account Takeover in instantsoft/icms2

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Reported on

Aug 9th 2023


Description

The [icms2] contains a flaw in its admin account management functionality, specifically in the process of changing and resetting passwords for administrators. Through careful analysis and testing, it was observed that an authenticated administrator has the capability to change the password of any other administrator's account, effectively allowing unauthorized access and takeover.

Proof of Concept

I performed a test using admin demo user to change other admin user nickname as i shown in my video poc whic you can find it here:
https://wormhole.app/yOKEq#6MTOE7wwFPFM43elm-Qllg

Impact

Exploiting this vulnerability enables an authenticated attacker to misuse their legitimate access and gain unauthorized control over other administrator accounts.

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instantsoft/icms2 maintainer modified the Severity from Medium (6.7) to Medium (4.7) a month ago
The researcher has received a minor penalty to their credibility for miscalculating the severity: -1
instantsoft/icms2 maintainer validated this vulnerability a month ago
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instantsoft/icms2 maintainer marked this as fixed in 2.16.1-git with commit 78ff8c a month ago
The fix bounty has been dropped
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE
This vulnerability is scheduled to go public on Aug 31st 2023
instantsoft/icms2 maintainer gave praise a month ago
Thank you
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a month ago

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thank you so much

instantsoft/icms2 maintainer published this vulnerability 22 days ago
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